At The Game Awards last year, Sega announced plans to revive five of its dormant IPs—Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Shinobi, Streets of Rage, and Golden Axe. While news about these games has been relatively quiet since, Sega did confirm that Crazy Taxi, at least, would be a massively multiplayer online title.
Twisting these classics into generic live-service slop will only end in disaster.
Over the last few days, however, new job listings have appeared on Sega's Japanese careers board, suggesting that a brand-new "major online title" is in the works, separate from the ones previously announced.
A handful of listings have gone up on Sega's site, with urgent requirements for a lead UI/systems designer, a motion and cut scene producer, and a lead game designer for player community/field on what is described as a "Super Game" in the advert's listing.
These listings all share a similar set of specifications. Successful applicants begin work on a "large-scale, open-world, mass multiplayer game," with one of the roles requiring specific experience in "producing MMO and open-world titles" and "in multiplayer action battle production." The game aims to be a "global hit, primarily in the North American market."...
